20th March 2023, 2:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 21st March 2023, 8:04 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
It's very interesting the legacy of this particular subgenre of shooter. No series seems to stay "golden" forever. Goldeneye is great, while TWINE for N64, made by another group but intended to imitate Goldeneye's style, wasn't so good. Perfect Dark is even better than Goldeneye, but Perfect Dark Zero imitated too much from the likes of Half-Life and Halo and lost it's identity as another "me too" shooter. TimeSplitters is... alright the first one is basically a rushed tech demo (every level's objective is, go to x then go back to start) but TimeSplitters 2 is an absolutely amazing "Goldilike" that I think also surpasses Goldeneye if not quite reaching the heights of Perfect Dark. TimeSplitters 3, unfortunately, fell into the trap of copying it's contemporaries and becomes another "cinematic" driven "me too" shooter (it's objectives are "complete as you go" that more or less automatically happen just by heading through the more modern "tunnel" design of the levels).
It looks like we get one really amazing game a franchise from this genre.
It looks like we get one really amazing game a franchise from this genre.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)